From Swift to Hack, here’s the Ushahidi Weekly: The SwiftRiver team gave a demo during our monthly Developer Community Call. We’re participating in Random Hacks of Kindness and the Free Election Hackathons.

From the Community:

Women Under Siege was featured in the medical journal: The Lancet.

The Water Voices team created this video to highlight their project plans:

Deployment of the Week for May 25th: Bijoya – Mapping Harassment in Bangladesh. See all the Deployments of the Week

Into the Code:

We’ll be releasing code later today (2.4). This is a bug fix release. Please upgrade your deployments to the latest version. Watch the here for more details soon.

On this month’s community call, the SwiftRiver team did a demo and answered questions about the code:

Listen to May’s Community Call.

Events:

We’re planning some webinars focused on topical mappers (For example: corruption and election monitoring mapper). Do you have any suggestions? Would you like to participate or help organize?

Random Hacks of Kindness – June 1 – 3, 2012 – global

RHoK week is here! The Water Voices team will be braining in Toronto.

• If you are working on a hack which will include Ushahidi, please let us know!
• If you can attend a local event, Great! We also need a virtual hand. Simply stay tuned on the Ushahidi skype community developer chat room. Or ping, Hleson at ushahidi dot com for more details.

Free Elections Hackathon – London (UK)

We’re participating in Free Elections Hackathon June 16, 2012 in London (UK).

• Register to attend the Free Elections Hackathon
• If you have any ideas for plugins that would be useful for elections, let us know.

For all the Ushahidi weekly report, see our wiki.

Have a great week!

Heather